Let's talk about Microsoft .NET and look at Pamela Hollingsworth's
system 
<a
href="http://pomo.is-a-geek.com/basics/quotations.aspx">http://pomo.is-a-geek.com/basics/quotations.aspx</a>.

<p>

Look at PopulateGrid and how it puts in the search term from the user.
Also the cookie goes in directly.

Compare to the insertCmd stuff with bind vars.

<p>

Where are the database username and password stored?

<P>

Note how the "Erase Personalization" link shows up only when relevant.
What about the table format?

<p>

What about the lens calculator?  How do we do it all at one URL?

<h3>Python</h3>

<a
href="http://mdmurray.mit.edu/basics/quotations">http://mdmurray.mit.edu/basics/quotations</a>

(note appearance of "erase my personalization" when relevant. placement
of kill buttons?  Should they be a POST?  bind vars?  single quotes?)


<h3>PHP</h3>

<a href="http://18.244.6.248/basics/quotations.php">Justin Moe's
quotations system</a> (check out those bind variables... or not)

<p>

How does error handling work in the <a href="http://18.244.6.248/basics/books.html">books shopping case</a>?

<p>

Let's compare to ASP.NET, <a href="http://davidd8.mit.edu/basics/books-2.txt">David Dryjanski's</a>

<h3>Where to store information on killed quotions?</h3>

All in the cookie?  Use the cookie as a key to the database table?

<h3>Table or list?</h3>

<a
href="http://www.rickdn.com/basics/quotations">http://www.rickdn.com/basics/quotations</a>
is a table.  Should it be?  Who wrote the page?